T Stands For

It's Tuesday and time to visit with Bleubeard and Elizabeth. Today it's Shin Ramen (the best packaged I've ever found. Psy endorses their Black Label, but that's outside my budget... I need crafting supplies). This time it has baby Bok Choy and a slice of processed cheese. Truly the cheese is da bomb. If I'm really really hungry I add an egg. I eat it with a fork because I'm lacking a pair of chopsticks that don't taste like lacquer.

Next to it is a card I'm working on with a surprise inside : D.

If I had my way I'd only be out once a week. The last couple of week have been full of various checkups and physical therapy three times a week for tendonitis in my left achilles heel and my right shoulder. I scuttled off pronto when I lost 2/3rds of my mobility in my shoulder in a week. Thankfully I can still do papercrafting. Today I get to stay home. It's hot and muggy so I turned on the AC in my craft room and get to play.

I have a few challenges to do, and a page about my dad's (who died in February) [postage] stamp collection and my [rubber] stamp collection. Actually I have decades to scrap, but one page at a time lol.

edited to add the card is finished and can be see at this post if you've a mind to do so : ). 

T Stands For Tiki

It's time for T Stands for [Tiki] with Elizabeth and Bleubeard.

First course photographed at the craft table, eaten elsewhere lol. I can't believe it's hot enough to be eating watermelon/feta cheese/spinach radicchio arugula/balsamic vinegar salad already. Usually it's in the 60s/70s in May. We've already had 5 days at or near 90. And this time I'm using a yellow Tiki glass with water. It might be time to break out the cucumbers for cucumber water.

T Stands for Tiki Glass

I am Tiki obsessed, even when there is no Grumpy with it. I've been making books from Club Scrap kits I bought on sale. No expiration dates on them even though the kits were made in 2003, 2004 and 2009.

The strip of paper to the left of the glass and the square to the right will be joined to make a scroll element in this book.

This is the first one. I was doing some Spring Cleaning, innocently opened a box and found it had four ribbon books to stitch in it. And even though I've had the kit for 5 years, I was compelled to make one right then.

This is what the spine looks like. The green ribbon comes out one each side to tie the book closed. There are two pieces of blue ribbon under the stitching.

Then I put that box back and looked in the one under it... And found this book. Beads need to be tied to the strings. I added the washi tape to give it a little more stricture. It needs things on the cover, but I don't know what.

I put the ink pad there for scale. No idea what I'm going to put on the pages either. It's diffiuclt to see in this picture, but the pages are textured. It closes with a tie.

This is a very old kit (2003 I think). The directions don't call for a cover plate, but I'm adding them too. The first and last pages slide into the cover sleeves.

I'm not in danger of running out of things to do lol. That's my $5 typewriter on the bottom left.

For more fun with T head over to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's at the Altered Book Lover.

T stands for Tea Cup Coffee Cozy

I'm joining in T Stands for over at Elizabeth's and Bluebeard's. This week I've been stitching like crazy, mostly Scissor Keepers, but I'm also giving my new Coffee Cozy dies from Papertrey Ink a few test drives. I made this one for a family friend who LOVES pink.  You can read all the deets here if you are so inclined.

I had intended to post this last night I also took pictures of my snack (now long done).

It's Jiffy Pop. It's probably an American thing but one never knows. You cook it on the stove top (in the commercial you say "pop pop jiffy pop" but that messes up the shaking in real life (and the popcorn underpops and burns). To get it right it must be shaken and swirled virgously at a very fast tempo. I was sad because I couldn't find it at any shops, but low and behold it's on Amazon (prime).

This isn't the commercial that "sold" me on Jiffy Pop when I was a kid but the idea is there : ).

T Stands for Tiki Grumpy : )

I love Tiki and I love Grumpy, so it makes sense that I love this mug :). I also have a shirt that matches. Julia has a lot of china, I have a lot of Grumpy lol. On my desk is a card that the ohsotalented Kara of KandR Designs sent me. She had made the card as an example of a card for little boys, and I told her I'm an old woman and I love it too lol.

 The desk is momentarily cleared but it's been a crafting blitz lately.

I put a spinning sheep in a dome.

 I made a card with one of my all time favorite stamps (Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas).

I also made this Scissor Keeper stitched completely with 2 ply handspun embroidery thread.

For more Tuesday goings on, head over to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's blog. Let me know if word verification is popping up with the "I am not a robot" button. I'm not sure how to turn it off  if it is but at least I'll know. Regular word verification is turned off, but I think this might be something different.

T Stands for Teacup (Giant) and Typewriter and a little bit of a Tidy Up.

After I spilled a bowl of ramen in my lap I bought a giant teacup for soup and ramen. The handle makes a world of difference : D.  I found Shin ramen at Walmart of all places, It's my favorite, but I only put in 1/4 - 1/3 of the flavor packet because Korean food is SPICEy. The video below is where I learned different things to put in ramen.

Really I was all judgy about the last ingredient. But I had to admit it's the magical component to a filling meal : ).

I found a Tim Holtz Vintage Typewriter die for $5 and used the packaging to make a stencil and a mask. I'm a bit of a typewriter freak, at one point I had 17. I believe I'm down to 7 now.

The Distress Paints and Stains are all readily identifiable thanks to a 5/8" circle punch and some labels I picked up at the dollar store. Just dab, (let dry) punch and adhere. The inkpads are ALL done too : D.

Head over to Elizabeth's and Bleubeard's Altered Book Lover blog for more fun  ).

T is for Tickled Pink

I love to try new crafty things, and sometimes they even turn out like I thought they would lol. This is one of those times. I used the stitch die from Papertrey Ink's Regency Era on Shrinky Dink. I cross stitched it (at full size) with some handspun wool/silk blend. Then shrunk it with Ranger's Heat-It.  I used the back of a wood mounted stamp to flatten it while it was still warm. And it feels like terry cloth. I think I'll be sewing a pinback on it through threads in the back.

Since it's Tuesday and I'm tickled pink, I'll be sharing this with Bleubeard and Elizabeth's T Stands for. Simon Says Anything Goes, so I will be sharing it there. And because it is Papertrey Ink, I'll be sharing it at September 2014 Inspiration Archive.

updated to add I had it sitting on my crafttable and was overcome with an urge to paint it using Distress Ink (Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstock and Bundled Sage).

T Stands for Tuesday

Today I used my Slushy Magic Cup to make an Iced Tea Slushy it was just the ticket for a muggy hot day. I sipped and shook my new Stomp for Joy shaker card. I think I need to make more of both. Though it's not quite Tuesday, it is time for T Stands for Tuesday with Bleubeard and Elizabeth (which turns One today).

T Stands for Tuesday

Today I'm drinking Cucumber Water. It tastes even more refreshing since the weather is warm and muggy. The glass has a bamboo design on it. I am very fond of Tiki Room themed items lol. Head over to Bleubeard & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover Blog for more Tasty Beverages.

Tea Stands for Tuesday

I finally had a beverage, some down time and a camera so I can do a Tea Stands for Tuesday with my friend Elizabeth.  I love iced tea (plain tea, no sugar which has now become unsweetened tea in most restaurants). And when my $1's worth is done, I use the insulated cup for water for the rest of the day, especially in the summer.  I was raised on sweet tea, but it's just too sweet for me now.

I am trying to carve a stamp out of a new to me material (clear) that is labelled easy to carve. Erasers are easy to carve (the little pink rectangle which I made into a mouse stamp in about 5 minutes. The clear stuff I'm carving on my crafty cutting board so I don't gauge my nonstick mat and I've been at it for over 45 minutes and only carved about a sixth but safety first : ).